... and with RSS I mean the mechanism, not the specific protocol or version (so this stands for RSS 0.x, 2.x and Atom as well).Apart from RSS as a feed mechanism for news and blog sites, there are some nice RSS "applications" that provide a feed into a "personalized query" (for lack of other words).

Take flickr for example: they provide (among others) an RSS feed for "Comments you made" (see my comments here.

Or openBC: there you have a feed for e.g. "Members who have recently visited my contact page" or "Contacts of mine whose company or position has recently changed".

Monday, June 12, 2006

People who write software get basically remunerated for writing more software and what they are doing is writing more features.If you just paid people for every line of code they removed instead of add you would have a much better software world.

A friend just pointed out the marvelous combination of Conquery and the mycroft.The perfect example (quite local to him and me):define the vienna city map search in mycroft and then mark an adress and go for it.

Flickr is usually traded as one of the signposts towards Web 2.0. And there's nothing to disagree with, since Web 2.0 is defined through examples like Flickr and GMail and Google Maps and so on.

Having played around with flickr for some time now, I have to admit its one of the best applications (or probably better: services) on the Web.

It serves a clear purpose, and (more important) does this perfectly

it is driven by its users resp. the community (uploading, comments, tagging, groups, ...)

it interoperates with various other services (e.g. blogging interface to all major blogging sites/types)

it offers its own services to other services

its user interface is just perfect, and I'm not (only) talking about its dynamic AJAX style, but also the way they guide a user and how you do configure your settings; they don't confront the user with tech terms, but mainly ask questions.

Take a look at their account settings page here... and compare this to other settings/preferences dialogs.

So, yes, flickr is pretty cool; if the web is really heading that way, I'll be glad to follow.